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Canícula / Dog Days: Poems

by William Archila , Mario Zetino
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781636284552
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Red Hen Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Red Hen Press
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  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: USD 38.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Spanish and Eng
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / Hispanic & Latino

"In this brilliant bilingual anthology, William Archila creates a powerful and fiery poetics of exile, war, and, ultimately and brilliantly, survival."-Daniel Borzutzky, National Book Award winner


From war-torn El Salvador to the streets of LA, Can�iacute;cula / Dog Days is a bold, bilingual collection chronicling exile, memory, and resilience across borders.


William Archila's Can�cula / Dog Days is a bilingual selection of his first two books of poetry, The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger's Archaeology, two collections that chart the emergence of a newcomer in the chorus of Latin Poetry. Can�cula, which means "dog days" in English, takes the reader on a poignant journey from the unrest in El Salvador in the 1980s to the urban landscape of the US immigrant, revealing the turmoil and memory of the disempowered, the impoverished, and the displaced who struggle back home in Central America. In lyrical and often harrowing language, Archila unearths the vestiges of war and the exile's return in an elegy, the fragments of a myth, or a jazz riff. They come together like the bilateral symmetry of a volcano, and the result is the introduction to Archila's poetry for the Spanish reader.

"En esta brillante antolog�a biling�uuml;e, William Archila crea una po�eacute;tica poderosa y apasionada del exilio, la guerra y, en �uacute;ltima instancia y con maestr�a, la supervivencia."--Daniel Borzutzky, ganador del National Book Award


Desde un El Salvador devastado por la guerra hasta las calles de Los �ngeles, Can�cula / Dog Days es una antolog�a biling�e audaz, que narra el exilio, la memoria y la resiliencia a trav�s de las fronteras.

Can�cula / Dog Days de William Archila es una selecci�oacute;n biling�e de sus dos primeros libros de poes�a, El arte del exilio y La arqueolog�a del sepulturero, dos poemarios que marcan el surgimiento de un nuevo referente en la poes�a latina. Dog Days, que significa "can�cula", lleva al lector a trav�s de un viaje conmovedor desde la agitaci�n en El Salvador en la d�cada de 1980 hasta el paisaje urbano del inmigrante en los Estados Unidos, revelando la angustia y la memoria de los marginados, los empobrecidos y los desplazados, que luchan por volver a su hogar en Centroam�rica. Con un lenguaje l�rico y a menudo desgarrador, Archila desentierra los vestigios de la guerra y el regreso del exiliado en una eleg�a, en los fragmentos de un mito o en un riff de jazz. Estos se conjugan como la simetr�a de un volc�aacute;n, y el resultado es la presentaci�n de la poes�a de Archila al lector en espa�ntilde;ol.


William Archila, born in El Salvador, is the author of the most recent publications Canícula/Dog Days: Selected Poems 2009-2013 and S is For, winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is also the author of The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger's Archaeology. He was awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship. He has been published in Poetry magazine, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, and the anthology Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. He is an associate editor at Tía Chucha Press. Born in El Salvador, he now lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land.


Mario Zetino is a Salvadoran poet, translator, and scholar. He has published five poetry collections and has edited three anthologies of Salvadoran poetry. His most recent work is the collection El corazón del universo (The Heart of the Universe. KDP, 2025). His work has been published in anthologies such as Segundo índice antológico de la poesía salvadoreña and in magazines such as La Zebra, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, The Los Angeles Review, and Latino Book Review. In 2016, he was a resident writer in the Hispanic Writers Week of UMass Boston. He holds a degree in Spanish from Universidad de El Salvador and has published several papers on literary studies.

Las publicaciones más recientes de William Archila incluyen Canícula/Dog Days: Antología Poética 2009-2013 y S is for, que recibió el 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Ha publicado los poemarios The Art of Exile y The Gravedigger's Archaeology. En 2023 fue galardonado con la beca Jack Hazard. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en revistas como Poetry, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly; y en la antología Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. Es editor asociado de Tía Chucha Press. Reside en Los Ángeles, en territorio Tongva.


Mario Zetino es un poeta, traductor y académico salvadoreño. Ha publicado cinco poemarios y ha compilado tres antologías de poesía salvadoreña. Su libro más reciente es El corazón del universo (KDP, 2025). Su trabajo ha sido publicado en antologías como Segundo índice antológico de la poesía salvadoreña y en revistas como La Zebra, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, The Los Angeles Review y Latino Book Review. En 2016, fue escritor residente en la Hispanic Writers Week de la UMass Boston. Es Licenciado en Letras por la Universidad de El Salvador. Ha publicado diversos artículos sobre estudios literarios.

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